This Saturday: Collingwood VS Hawthorn

[cs61]

That's what the West Toast supporters said, and they were wrong.

Think Hodge, Everitt, Crawford and Mitchell is gonna be tough centre square combination. Your backline is good enough to stop our forwards, yet ours is good enough to stop yours. Definately need to stop our onballers to win. However after 6 days after Perth I'm worried, especially after your guys good win on the weekend.
Should be a good game. We'll start favourites but that means absolutely nothing.

 

[Jabso]

Hodge Everitt Crawf and Extractor may be a great centre square combination but so are Cox, Fletcher, Cousins, Kerr.

 

[jefffff34]

You have forgotten about the Black Daicos.

Who is going to stop Chris Egan??????

 

[grayza]

good point hoggy

the hawks might realise this and put timmy clarke back there early, and try nullify the lanky one

 

[OneEyedHawk]

You have forgotten about the Black Daicos.

Who is going to stop Chris Egan??????

We might get the Black Riewoldt to go head-to-head with him.
I'm a bit worried about the short week coming back from Perth. Even shorter after the detour Chance Bateman's sister's memorial thing. Could go either way.

 

[cs61]

Clarke to go on Shaw, and Ries to try stop Johnson them running from defence.

Croad will definately play.

Who do Pies fans think they will tag out of Crawf, Mitchell, Hodge... or all three? I reckon they'll drop a loose man in defence.. which would make it hard to tag Hodge and play a loose man in front of Willo at the same time you'd think... its gonna be an interesting in terms of matchups for sure

Go Hawks!

 

[MarkT]

I'm looking forward to C3 v Croad if that eventuates. I'd tag crawf and mitchel and play someone like Holland at half forward to tag Hodge. Holland should be told to get stuck into him from the moment he walks up to him before the bounce. Lica or Burns for Mitchell. Everitt is the one we can't cover but I though that last year too. Clement is a good matchup for Williams on papaer but we'd have to stop Mitchell in the middle to make Clements job easier.

If we can cover the above players we have them well and truely on the back foot. If not we will really struggle.

 

[grayza]

we really need to shut Mitchell down, Likka will get first crack i reckon but he needs to play tight, and it could hurt us not having Likka, who has hit some form, not pushing forward for us

ive conceded that Spida will get 40 hitouts, just as long as they arent effective that would be good

hopefully it is a great contest